L'Argent

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Kate F I made an account solely to critique this film and attempt to even out the outrageous high score. You will only like this film if you are a pretentious sophomoric snob. The score is high only because this is the only type of people to watch this film. I was falling asleep for most of the film. And I say film bc a movie is made to entertain and this did not. There are shots and shots of nothing happening. The actors had no emotion- delivering every line in the most deadpan way. People analyze it as being a deep look at how money corrupts but the character is simply evil. I know it’s supposed to explore film without overt emotion and the classic artistic devices but it didn’t replace them with anything; it was both morally and aesthetically empty. I was not impressed by the so called classic cinematography which reminded me of the poor quality movies I made as a kid with friends. Tolstoy originally wrote this with a part 2 in which one small act of good snowballs into having a larger and larger positive effect. Which is a much more powerful artistic message. Do not watch. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/25 Full Review Dave S L'Argent was the perfect swan song for the great French auteur Robert Bresson – a sparse but powerful film rich in themes and consistent in style with the rest of his impressive oeuvre. Set in Paris, the passing of a counterfeit banknote leads to an unimaginably tragic and ultimately violent chain of events. It's really that simple. As always, Bresson pares things down to only the necessary. The dialogue is minimal, the film is unadorned by a music score, and there isn't a scene or a shot that is unnecessary. L'Argent is a reminder of how movies should be made and what cinematic art looks like in the hands of a master. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Based on the works of Leo Tolstoy... and it's French. I can watch and enjoy some foreign language films but I did not find much of anything to like about this one. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review s r 1001 movies to see before you die. This was very unusual and special. Well made and powerful themes. An interesting look at French jails to boot. Who knew they got wine for their dinners? Only in France. Saw on HBO. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review William L The parallels to Bresson's own Au hasard Balthazar are immediate right off the bat, following a single, seemingly insignificant object or character as it touches the lives of multiple characters, but the film lacks thematic and emotional depth to me; there is a focus on the pervasive nature of greed and its negative effects regardless of severity, but really that's it in terms of surface-level messaging - "greed exists and is bad". Diving slightly deeper, the film can be construed as providing evidence of an underlying Machiavellianism that would advise the viewer against any sort of charity, for it will only be taken advantage of, but this is hardly new territory for Bresson. The emotionless, unchanging faces of each character seems more pretentious than anything else, cementing a universality to the characters but little significance. Apparently, if you have some sort of semblance of honesty in Bresson's world, you'll end up like Anton Chigurh; these later scenes are the most distinctive and compelling of the film, but simultaneously the least justified. Unusual, but I can't call myself a diehard fan. (3/5) Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/02/21 Full Review Audience Member Bresson tells us a simple story with an extremely clean stream of wonderful shots. Master of cinema Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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